There was all that supernatural backstory, compounded by that feeling of not knowing where the hell you were or where you were going, and not forgetting the far more practical fear of getting poked in the eye by a sharp branch.
Some GOP leaders have raised constitutional objections, others more direct and practical fears that campaign finance could lead to their losing control of the House.
To this day I'm not sure what silenced me more: practical difficulties or simple fear of embarrassment.
On a more practical level, Schlesinger supposedly feared that a hostile, foreign power might attempt to take advantage of the domestic crisis.
As for more practical challenges, Leahy declined to name them for fear of giving Boko Haram information they didn't already have.
The new stadium there would be more practical than the long-debated West Side stadium, whose opponents fear unbearable gridlock in Midtown.
Climate change fears should be driving not old and disproven technologies but renewable ones, which are more practical.
It triumphed in the US and elsewhere, not because it was more practical, but because the elites saw it as more palatable to a direct democracy that they feared and hated.
Some were more practical.
More practical concerns dominated.
